Many marine organisms, including corals, build skeletons from calcium carbonate – in the form of calcite or aragonite. The current composition of seawater favors the formation of aragonite – but soft ...

A Johns Hopkins University graduate student may have solved a problem that has been baffling marine biologists and paleontologists for years: Why do coral reefs disappear from the fossil record during ...

For many years, the structure of natural shell samples has attracted a great deal of interest from Material Scientists as well as Researchers in the Biological Sciences field [1]. The reason for this ...

Living colony of the cheilostome bryozoan Myriapora truncata, one of the species Museum scientists are using in their research on the effects of ocean acidification Focus: investigating the timing of ...